city skyline. thanks forever inviting us into your home tonight after hurricane sandy. people coming together. that's a good thing. that's it for "special report." fair, balanced and always unafraid. >> shepard: this is "the fox report." tonight, the dramatic images from that devastating storm. including this shot from the construction pit at the world trade center. sea water cascading into the still gapping hole. plus, from above the jersey shore, massive, widespread destruction caused by a once in a lifetime storm. >> we're talking months to recover from this. >> shepard: millions of people across the northeast without power. [chainsaw] >> shepard: shore towns from virginia to connecticut under water. >> this is the worse i have ever seen. >> shepard: the nation's

largest city at a stand still. entire new york city neighborhood burned to the ground. >> absolute and total devastation. >> shepard: and now the storm has turned into a blizzard. plus, thousands of passengers still stranded at airports across the nation and around the world. halloween, we have got the kids at home. >> shepard: tonight, word some airports in the storm zone could stay closed for days. and the search continues for the captain of the sunken hms bounty 90 miles off the coast of north carolina. now we know it was worse than even the worst prediction. unprecedented and unthinkable. that's what the new jersey governor chris christie is calling the damage from the super storm sandy that slammed his state. and just look along the jersey shore. or what was. tonight, officials are blaming the storm for more than three dozen deaths across the

country. and more than 8 million customers, not people, 8 million customers have no power. most of them in new york and new jersey. look at this map here. the damage from the monster storm extends as far as west as michigan. the blue areas are the flooding. the red is wind damage and the white, that's snow and lots of it. parts of west virginia have already gotten more than 2 feet of snow. the blizzard warnings are in effect in more than a dozen counties until tomorrow afternoon. new jersey, of course, took the direct hit from sandy just south of atlantic city. officials say the casinos are okay but the storm washed away part of the board walk there. and in other towns along the jersey shore. farther north just outside new york city emergency workers are using boats to rescue hundreds upon hundreds of people from homes that are still under water. governor christie says it could take months for new jersey to recover. >> i know that many people in our state woke up today to absolute devastation.

it is beyond anything i thought i would ever see. i anticipated last night, given the nature of the winds and the rain would be pretty bad. i didn't expect it to be that bad. >> shepard: frankly, no one did. the governor says the path commuter trains that run between new york and new jersey bring all those people to work will be out of service for at least seven to 10 days. you can see why. floodwaters look at this, pouring into the stations like this one in hoboken just across the new jersey river in manhattan. officials here in new york say it could be four or five days at least before the subways are up and running at any level. here is a look at some the underground flooding. 4.3 million people a day use these subways. mayor michael bloomberg says it's the worst damage in 108 year history. queens, new york one man says it was the devil's night. would you look at this. a fire pushed by those devastating wind destroying home after home after home.

80 homes in one working class neighborhood at the shore. investigators say sandy's winds kept the flames raging for hours. firefighters, most of them couldn't get there wading through the floodwaters just trying to rescue people. more on that in a moment. i mentioned the damage goes all the way to michigan. look at these waves. this is not -- this is no ocean. this is lake michigan in chicago. officials are telling people to stay away from the water and they have shut down parts of lake shore drive. and with the big picture now, team fox coverage of the enormous storm beginning with craig boswell in new jersey just outside atlantic city. what's it like there now? >> shep, good evening to you. like we said on the edge of atlantic city. families trying to get in to check out the damage to their homes are being turned away. let me pan and show you what's going on. state police had the roads blocked going to atlantic city. they say they are going to open them tomorrow. right now families driving there are being turned away. one lady wants to get, in

check out her home and see what may have happened. another gentleman who couldn't get into the hotel room because many of the casinos backed behind me booked the hotel rooms for their employees. rented a u-haul place and rented a u-haul and sleeping into the parking lot until he can get back into his home to see what remains. some 80,000 people in this area without power. some 2.5 million people statewide. shep, this is becoming a very very cold night. temperatures are dropping fast. and the governor said today, likely 7 to 8 days or longer before power is restored, shep. >> shepard: looking at the aerial pictures from there. i want to keep looking at those from atlantic city. some back and forth between the mayor of atlantic city and the governor chris christie. >> right. dust up there. governor chris christie basically saying that the mayor of atlantic is city, mayor lancaster ford didn't take the evacuation notices seriously and put his people in harm's way. the mayor pushing back on that today saying that the governor is misinformed. both of these byes really dow

jones minutes -- mince words. >> i'm disappointed that order wasn't completely complied with i have great sympathy and concerns for the folks trapped atlantic city. >> better to have options and need them than have need options and not have them. we had a contingency plan. >> spoke to a couple of families here today being turned away who were talking about that very dust-up saying they want both of these elected officials to get over it they said, quote. they want them to grow up and focus on ofixing the problems at hand. shep? >> shepard: craig boswell just outside of atlantic city, new jersey. thanks. the president plans to visit jersey tomorrow to get a first-hand look at the storm damage. he will join governor chris christie. we will will hear from the president and governor christie wilre in fox report for an interview coming up minutes from now. as i reported, it was a massive fire last night in new york city that destroyed now i'm told as many as 100 homes in the breezy point section of queens just across the river

from manhattan. that's a close-knit, mostly blue collar community been there for generations of people. it's on a spit of land that juts out two miles south of the famous coney island. a lot of retired cops and firefighters live there have for years and i know firsthand they absolutely love it or did will until now. authorities say this fire likely started in one or more homes nearby. the high winds just pushed it from home to home to home. hear listen. >> it's been a very very upsetting situation. more for my friends' lives than houses. the lives are worth more than any of the property. >> this is all that was left after the fire. the smoldering ruins today. take a look. each house burned right down to the soggy foundation. chimneys standing where houses once did. just a total loss in this neighborhood. "the fox report's" correspondent jonathan hunt has moved from the spot where he he spent the night to breezy point with more.

jonathan, you saw it close up. what a heart-breaking picture. just stunning, shep. the worst hit part of breezy point is a half mile to my right here. cops for very good reason are not allowing anything other than emergency vehicles to get down there. a while ago we did hike through what are still badly flooded streets. and this is what we found. take a look. >> it is a breath-taking scene. it is just not what you expect to sees a a result of a hurricane or any kind of storm. scores of homes, burned to the ground right here as you can see plainly in front of you. members of the fire department of new york still working to put out some of the smoldering flames here among what were people's homes. the remnants of their lives still here. what looks like a graduation program from the school of business administration here, a picture of the pope right here. and something that we relate

most usually to wildfires. the chimney stack standing alone. the only thing still upright in what were scores of family homes. >> so much devastation, shep. so many families who tonight face the loss of everything gathered together in those homes. >> shepard: extraordinary that they all survived in that neighborhood. >> it seems nothing short of a miracle that there was not only no loss of life, but according to senator chuck schumer, the new york senator who we bumped into as we weighed down through the waters to that part of breezy point, there weren't even any serious injuries. according to senator schumer in the coming months and years, we will see another miracle here because he says these people are truly resilient. listen. >> they are as they call themselves a hardy lot. and they will build this place

back. but it was devastating to see it. i don't think i have seen any kind of fire like this in 37 years that i have been an election official. it's incredible. you feel for the people. you just feel for what they are going through. >> senator schumer also said, shep, that this reminded him of nothing more than the images of london during the blitz of world war ii. and when you look at those homes totally destroyed. the chimneys the only thing left standing, it's hard to argue with that sort of image, shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt on a sad night at breezy point and after the storm in the 40s tonight there with no power. and as the dangerous storm heads to the west, it's kicking up waves in the great lakes near record heights. we'll go live to chicago where officials are warning folks don't even get close to the water. plus, that same wide reaching

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>> shepard: the national weather service reports sandy kicked up waves higher than 20 feet not only in the ocean but the great lakes as well. look at this scene in cleveland on the shore of lake erie. sandy uprooted tree there cut off power to thousands and forced city schools closed. just to the west in chicago we are talking waves as high as two story buildings on lake michigan. >> the waves are bad out there. can you see from lake shore drive you don't want to be out there at all. >> make sure the things are secure and hoping that everything is fine and

protecting the boat. >> shepard: two story waves in a lake. with us now from wfld fox news chicago is amra walker. these are near record waives for lake michigan, right? >> that is right, shepard. the height of the waves reaching a near record. measuring in at nearly 22 feet tall. the highest waves recorded. were last year at about 23 feet. it's quite feasible that we can break a record in the next few hours overnight or in the early morning hours. and that's because the national weather service says we can reach waves as high as 25 feet here on lake michigan. but overall, for us chicagoens, this is truly a rare intriguing and really dramatic event for all of us. we are not used to this. these huge powerful waves just slamming into the sea wall here. we have seen dozen of onlookers come out all day today. they brought their cameras in toe. snapping videos.

this doesn't look like a lake to him. it looked like an angry ocean. we are under a flood warning until about 4:00 tomorrow. the lake front as you can see has been closed off. there is a barricade up there with the police tape. there is some lights flashing. city officials along with police have been out here telling folks to stay off the lake front. particularly the bike and pedestrian path which is usually packed at this time of night officials telling folks to stay away or get swept away. >> amara, thanks. let's get to janice dean in the fox weather center. you called it and people said quit making it worse. >> we still don't know the scope of damage. it's going to take days many weeks to realize how many people were affect dollars. 24 states affected by in storm in some way or another the

cloud canopy from this storm extending from the artic circle. and we are still getting tropical moisture being fed into maine. have you heard of lake-effect snow. this is ocean effect snow. incredible. snow from a tropical system, so that's a look at the satellite radar over the last six hours. again, you can still see that counterclockwise rotation. this storm is really about 1,000 miles wide. something that, you know, we really rarely have seen in these parts. the wind gusts are going to extend all the way down to the gulf coast because we have the low pressure system that was hurricane sandy. high pressure across the south. the pressure gradient between those two is going to give us wind gusts in some cases in excess of 30 miles per hour. and off those great lakes wind gusts in excess of 55 miles per hour. still snowing with blizzard warnings, huh? >> yes. that snow i was talking to. we have blizzard warnings across the appalachians. these snow totals are

incredible. over 2 feet. red house, maryland. west virginia, and speaking of west virginia, i believe we have some video to show you from that snow, from what was hurricane sandy. this is beckley, west virginia, just an hour southeast of charleston, light snow right now. 32 degrees wind chill feels like 24. winds gusting to 25 miles per hour it's winter time in these parts. the snow is going to continue to fly over the next 24 to 36 hours. there is your future radar. the low pressure very slow to inch into canada. you still see that counterclockwise rotation but things will start to improve along the coast. can you see the lingering snow showers all along the spine of the appalachians. >> it is incredible. janice dean, thanks. many thousands of flights cancelled. affecting travelers around the country and around the world. here is a look at what officials at new york's laguardia airport. would you look at that? that is what they are dealing

he at laguardia. update on the travel situation as we have it coming. plus, a parking lot full of yellow cabs under water in new jersey. as we mentioned the storm may end up costing up to or exceeding $20 billion. but could this slow down the entire u.s. economy? it certainly has in america's largest city ground to a halt tonight. we'll get into that straight ahead as fox reports live tonight.

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>> shepard: the great storm of 2012 bat ated of the east coast its impact has reached around the globe as people are still not able to fly into many parts of the region. jetblue airlines flooding at laguardia airport. the airlines have cancelled

some 16,000 flights as a result of this storm. all the major airports in the new york city area are still closed. state officials hope to partially reopen jfk, probably for international flights tomorrow. and there were significant delays today as the storm continued to produce strong winds further west. flights arriving at chicago's o'hare reported average delays of nearly three hours. so it was a good day. gerri willis from fox business with us. this has turned into a real mess and maybe down the road the economy. 18,100 latest number of flights cancelled. it makes irene look like nothing. there it was some 10,000 flights cancelled then. it cost delta for example 15 million in profits back then. that gives you an idea what the airlines are going to be looking at with this storm. >> bill: we don't -- >> shepard: we don't know when laguardia is going to reopen. estimates how much this could hurt the economy. one thing is perfectly clear the impact will be

substantial. >> yeah. here is what i think we are looking at 1-2 punch. first of all we have people staying home at work not getting paychecks. we have businesses that aren't operating here in new york city which is typically a 4 billion-dollar a day economy. could shave a tenth off of national g.d.p. but then we have all these federal dollars come in longer term we will see some kind of benefit from that it's going to take a while for it to play out. $20 billion the colmes of this storm. >> shepard: construction workers and on and on. there may be a dip in unemployment as a result of this. markets were closed for the second time. try tomorrow. there is no power downtown. i don't know had you they are going to do it. >> hammer pitt telling me tonight that he is selling pressure tomorrow. lots of volume as people try to get trades done. remember the last time that the exchange was closed for trading for weather, 1888. so you have got to go back a ways to see something like this. >> shepard: downtown, i mentioned there is no power. there is no cell service. resta.

there is no water because the water is electric in this city. >> right. >> shepard: there is no transportation. there is nothing. >> there is going to be backup. arthur left sec chairman criticized for not having a backup plan. yes we do. this is apparently what they are going to be putting in place tomorrow. >> shepard: good to see you. hospital in new york had to evacuate hundreds of patients after it lost power and backup generators did nothing. some of those patients newborn babies. look at this. workers had to carry everybody down the stairs because elevators obviously don't work. ambulances then transported them to other hospitals, a task that took all night and much of the morning they tell us. fortunately everybody is okay. across large parts of the northeast and the mid-atlantic region the beach towns are in ruin. governor chris christie will join us from new jersey in just a moment. that's ahead as fox reports live tonight. ♪

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ship. everybody that stepped on board her fell in love with her. i don't know why, what it is, there was just something about her. she just had a majestic grace to her: the us bounty sailed mutiny on the bountiy. according to its web site, the ship appeared recently in the pirates of the caribbean series and was on a voyage from connecticut to florida. sandy's surge left this on new york's staten island. look at that the front third of an oil tanker is now grounded on the beach. maybe the iconic picture of this storm. officials say it did not have any oil on it. they report it was tied up a half mile from the storm. they thought it would be safe. the surge damaged homes and businesses in the area. but we have not heard of any injuries in this location. no word on how long it will take to get that tanker off the beach. the storm also damaged a tent that protects one of the retired space shuttles. happened at the intrepid air,

sea and space museum on manhattan's west side. at the top of the screen, you can see parts of the shuttle enterprise exposed to the elements after the protective dome around it collapsed. museum officials say rising water from the hudson river flooded the power sources sourcs which kept that dome inflated. workers today said they began repairs as soon as conditions improve. i'm shepard smith. this is the fox report. it's the bottom of the hour. for the top of the news. we're getting a look at the flooding inside the new york city subway station. transit officials released this video tonight. sandy slammed lower manhattan with a record breaking 13-foot sturgeon. storm surge. this is the worst damage since it started running a century ago. it could take four or five days before the system is partially up and running. jamie colby live tonight in lower manhattan for us. how are things looking tonight? i know it's chilly. >> well, shepard, good evening

to you. clearly this is the weather incident of unprecedented proportions. and it really remains so today. the people who lost power, 8 million in total, you know, 3 million in new jersey and the 1 million nearly on long island learned today they could wait 10 days to be reinsayed the -- reinstated. the only good news manhattan and brooklyn will wait four days. it take a look behind me at the water here at the base of the brooklyn battery tunnel which is the connector between new york and brooklyn. con ed and the army core of engineers have been here trying to get access because a the love the electrical that con ed needs to restore is now under water. you saw in the subways. you can see it here as well. communication. one quarter of all cell phone towers went down in 10 states. and finally, 16 million people a year use this tunnel just to get to and from. how do they get to work? limited subway service tomorrow, full bus service tomorrow, maybe things will start to pull together.

but certainly not today. >> shepard: certainly in downtown manhattan, lower manhattan, no electricity, no cell service. how are people holding up? >> we haven't had any service of any kind. let me show you. this this is interesting, shepard. look at this, one building no power. the building next to it has power. today governor cuomo came and surveyed the site that was flooded. here this tunnel and also new york mayor michael bloomberg said dealing with 18 deaths so far that it's been all hands on deck. listen to what he said to new yorkers. >> yeah, working extremely hard and they will continue to work around the clock to get their systems fixed. our administration will move heaven and earth to help them so we can get back up and running as quickly as humanly possible. >> there is also a shortage of blood, shepard. the red cross had to cancel a number, as many as 300 blood drives. do what you can for them in

any way you can. new yorkers need your help, but they are resilient. shepard? >> shepard: jamie colby live in manhattan. record storm storm surge. seaside heights damaged dozens of homes. this video out of seaside heights. it really is incredible. many streets still flooded. if not they are loaded with sand and debris. atlantic city now, portions of many peers and board walk on the shore have washed out to sea. the office of emergency management says travel on many of those barrier islands is banned until further notice. the new jersey governor says he has never seen anything like it. governor christie joins us now from an operations center outside trenton. governor, good evening. the pictures are incredible. how are people along the shore holding up? >> it's a devastating day, shep, for the people of the jersey shore. i was able to travel there today by helicopter. i landed in a couple of spots

alongs shore. i mean, what i saw was unthinkable. you know, the place of my summer youth on the jersey shore, seaside heights where the tv show the jersey shore is filmed. the jersey shore, the seaside board walk is gone, shep. gone. washed into the ocean. i flew over it and saw a roller coaster and a lock ride in the atlantic ocean. it's just extraordinary. i saw homes washed down streets. streets with five and six feet of water completely unpassable. homes in the middle of state highways that have been washed off of their foundations. it is -- the power of this storm surge is not to be believed until you actually see it. unfortunately for me i i got to see it today. it happened in the state where i was born and raised. it's a sad day for the people of new jersey.

>> shepard: jersey folks are tough, governor. you live through an event like that. you come out strong from it. you look around and the place of your childhood memories is gone. i just wonder if you are ready to handle the mental part of this with so many up and down the coast. >> he will with you know, listen, we did -- that's part of the reason to go there today, shep. i gave out a lot of hugs on the jersey shore and a lot of tears were shared with me today. for that very reason because we will rebuild. we are a tough, no nonsense group of people in this state. you know that and so we will rebuild. but, for folks like me, in my generation, it will never be the same. the places that we knew growing up and that we now have the opportunity to take our children to, the thing that really weaves the fabric of your life are gone. they will be replaced but they won't be the same. now, we have got to bear up and deal with it because this is the hand we have been dealt. but it is certainly a harsh and difficult hand that we have been dealt by nature in the last 48 hours.

>> shepard: it is. the transit system is a real mess. i watched the video of water flowing into stations in hoboken and jersey city. howinghow are you going to get t up and running and. >> when the path station where that picture has made its way aren't the internet hoboken and pass system. the system will probably be down for at least seven days. salt water getting into that system wreaks havoc on it as you know. and new jersey transit has had many tracks washed away. by the storm. it will take us a little bit to get our transit system back up and running. but it will get there. but it will take a little while. we won't have a lot of mass chance sit in new jersey for the next week. >> shepard: are you getting what you need from the federal government? >> we are. so far, the president has expedited our major disaster declaration without the normal red tape and paperwork. did he it on the phone with me last night at midnight personally.

he has been involved as has craig fugate at fema. they have been involved here at our operations center right from the beginning, so, right now, i have nothing but praise for the way the administration has handled that. and coordinated with us at the state level. >> shepard: it's been on or obsd repeatedly that you have clearly put politics aside in this matter. i wonder if that's something for us all to think about. talking about people and children and lives to put that mess away. >> shep, listen, i wouldn't stand for anything else. i mean, we're talking about the livelihood of the people of my state. this is the oath i took. and i quite frankly don't care about the election at this moment. i have got lives to protect and rebuild in my state. and if the president of the united states does a good job, i will praise him. and if he does a bad job, i will criticize him. but he has done a good job in the last few days for new jersey. so he he deserves and has earned my praise and he will get it regardless of what the calendar says because this is much more important than

politics. this is the lives of the people of my state. the place where i was born and raised. i'm not going to put politics ahead of that ever. >> shepard: the days ahead are cold and difficult up and down that beautiful shore, all the best to you and yours and thank you. >> shep, thanks for the time and thanks for your concern. >> shepard: well, in connecticut officials warn that raw sewage from treatment plants and pumping stations may have contaminated the waters. environmental protection reports flooding and power outages caused sewage spills on several towns on or near the coast including bridgeport, greenwich, new haven, connecticut. molly lines live in milford. downed trees, power lines, a lot of problems there. >> yeah, that's just the beginning of it those downed trees the power line, the hundreds of thousands of people still without power tonight that are still left in the dark. just part of the issue because the coastal flooding that the governor was so insistent about people avoiding, leaving these low lying areas. a lot of the flooding still remains. can you see that just one of the many homes that have been

inundated by water here in garage. we see what was a beautiful leather couch there is a vehicle in the back. if people didn't get out and get their belongings out then it's going to be a tough slog just to becoming normal again. very dangerous storm. still a lot of people without power. authorities are still asking people to be careful out there because there are still compromised trees and compromised wires. shep? >> shepard: overall, now topping 100. it's 40 in the united states. three of them in connecticut there, molly. >> exactly. two of the deaths were from trees falling. big trees come down in the wind including an easton firefighter out doing his job out there trying to clear the roadways during the storm. another death that was a swimmer, someone that had gone swimming during the height of the storm. there is also an individual missing. someone out on a kayak that they can't find. having a number of deaths in connecticut alone. shep? >> shepard: molly in milford, connecticut tonight, thanks. the storm left behind a huge mess in far rock away, a low lying part of the new york

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>> shepard: the president is calling for government workers to cut the rid tape and get -- red tape and get help to these victims. president obama stopped by the red cross in g k earlier today. the president plans to visit new jersey tomorrow to see the damage for himself. but he promised help is on the way to all americans in the storm's path. the most america is with you. we are standing behind you and we are doing golden globe to do everything we can to help you get back on your feet.

>> shepard: governor romney also took a break from campaigning today to collect donations for storm victims. >> i appreciate the fact that people right here in dayton got up this morning, some went to the grocery store i see and purchased some things that these families will need and i appreciate your generosity. >> staffers say governor romney will be back on the campaign trail in florida tomorrow. election day one week from today. d.c. is ready to get back to business. officials say federal agencies in the district will reopen tomorrow. but workers can take the day off if they want, if they may need it. shannon bream just outside d.c., arlington, virginia tonight. what kind of damage there shannon? >> check this out. this a house a couple of miles out from washington, d.c. it's a scene we have seen repeated over and over again in this neighborhood. this is a house that i talked to the owner, he is the childhood owner of this home. grew up here. now owns the home. a tree that he says has been here since the civil war fell from its neighborhood's yards

into his house. they were actually there in the bottom floor where the tree fell. they just finished dinner, were clearing the dishes when this tree came crashing in last night. can you see into their home, into their ait particular, into the bedroom. clothe hanging there suitcases, all kinds of personal items. i talked to him today. he was very upbeat saying the crews will get out here and work when they can. they did start tonight on tree removal. may give us a chance to rebuild our house the way we have wanted to. is he looking on the bright side. many neighbors coming to help each other out. all across the neighborhood there are trees just like that one down. there are power lines down and crews faithfully working around the clock to trying to restore some type of power to this area but, as you know, it's going to take a lot of time, shep. >> shepard: bad flooding, shannon? >> yeah. because you know we have got the platomic which runs through the metropolitan area down through the national mall and monuments upway up through maryland as well. the national weather service has told us it will likely be one of the top five floods in history for the platomic. that's going to continue over

the next several days. we also of course are getting water further out from the coast coming in from the chesapeake bay there has been extensive flooding through here it complicates all of those rescue efforts. repair efforts. trying to get power back as the temperatures are dipping there we understand those waters are going to continue to rise around the d.c. metropolitan area. at least through the end of the week and right now in this area we have got about 430,000 customers without power, shep. >> shepard: how is transportation there, shannon? >> well, just as you have seen the problems in new york to a lesser degree we had them here as well with all public transportation shutting down for quite a while because of sandy, no buses no, metro, no subway trains, none of that. it has started phasing in this afternoon all of the area airports were down as well. if folks are going to try to return to work tomorrow, they are going to need some help. with public transportation phasing back in, that will be helpful. a lot of the roads right now are still not navigatable. folks will have to take their

time if they try to decide to head back tomorrow-to-work tomorrow. it's going to be one day at a time, shep. >> shepard: shannon bream in allergy to be. that storm caused problems at nuclear plants in the country, triggered a safety alert at one of them. on one town on the jersey shore the problem is a flood and of sand. here is rick leventhal reporting here today. >> the deck is tore up. restaurant is trashed. fences have come down. believe it or not, neil, this is the swimming pool. it's filled with sand. the sand that came off the beach, the sand that made up the dunes that they thought protected many of the homes here completely wiped out and pushed this way. you see more damage here. >> shepard: sandy dipping off the front of one of those homes, more on the monster storm ahead as fox reports live tonight. a cup of joe is a sedan.

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>> shepard: maryland saw both sides of this massive weather system that slammed the region. two feet of snow snapped power lines along the state's western border while officials say tropical storm conditions killed two people in central maryland and left hundreds of thousands without power. the storm also caused major flooding along the eastern shore wiped out much of the larger fishing pier in the beach town of ocean city, maryland. our steve harrigan is there. steve? >> shepard, you can see the clean up operation underway here along the board walk which is is good news for people like this independent bobcat driver. he has been at it since 9:00 this morning at $100 an hour. even as the clean up goes on,

rescue operations in low lying areas are still underway. we're hearing with the mt. vernon fire department. as can you see it's a very low tech operation. basically just going door to door looking for anyone who needs help. they have been finding a lot of them. even a day after the storm. ma'am, how are you doing? >> i'm doing fine. cold. >> how was the storm? >> the storm was terrible. >> were you scared? >> scared, not scared, just the baby. more scared for the baby than me. >> do you feel like -- came to rescue you. >> yes. we have been waiting since 1:00 yesterday. [ laughter ] >> it was a pretty low tech operation. some of those firefighters basically putting people on their backs or over their shoulders and carrying them out. one volunteer at it overnight said to me we are not getting paid for this. this is a privilege. some good news in maryland over the past 12 hours as well, people woke up this morning. there were 300,000 people in the state without power.

now that is down to less than 150,000. shepard, back to you. >> shepard: steve harrigan live tonight. thanks. the storm forced energy companies to shut down parts two of nuclear plants including indian point which is about 45 miles north of new york city. it also prompted safety officials to declare an alert at the nation's oldest nuclear plant. that's in oyster creek, new jersey. it was already out of service for refueling as it turns out. engineers apparently grew concerned last night as the water levels came up. and an alert means something has happened that could compromise the plant's safety. although its backup system still works. it does not require folks to evacuate their homes. certainly not. all across the northeast. people are dealing with lakes of water where their yards used to be. our viewers are sending photos of the widespread damage and we thank you. we will take a look at them on route to mr. bill o'reilly live tonight and that's coming up. i gave birth to my daughter on may 18th,

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us pictures of the storm p storm damage that slammed the east coast. we have got one here coming from northern new jersey where heavy winds ripped this tree from the ground. and sent it crashing right through the roof of a home. on new york's long island, the storm surge and high tide caused severe flooding across several coastal communities. this is on the south shore of long island. the beachfront where many homes now sent completely surrounded by water i'm told. farther south folks seeing two feet of snow in virginia. look at this. not even halloween. the governor says it has already caved in some roofs. updating our top story tonight. the super storm killed at least five people across new jersey. and seller blocks of the historic atlantic city board walk are gone. governor christie calls it a devastating day. floodwaters only triggered electrical damage, not structural damage at the world trade center construction site. that's according to an official with the port authority of new york and new jersey. the new york stock exchange is to be back open and running tomorrow. first time in more than a

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